Tag Archive: drawing

Enter Laughing: Flannery Cashill at WSW

Dec 05, 2018

Artist and writer Flannery Cashill is a world-maker. Her work pops with color and patterns, flowers and women, aliens and animals. Finding inspiration from an array of consumer branding and cultural phenomena, including “comics, cereal boxes, jokes on popsicle sticks, emojis, infographics, petroglyphs, Skymall, etc.” she incorporates these elements into her work asking “how much… View Article

Fabric of Daily Life: Padma Rajendran in the Studio

Nov 09, 2018

Artist Padma Rajendren’s work delivers themes of migration, women, labor, and the narratives of domesticity by grounding us in earthly, bodily experiences. Despite the aesthetic lightness, she delivers bright and playful forms that hold weight with meaning, “I’m trying to communicate ideas that are not always lighthearted, but it’s harder to ignore the lovely things.”… View Article

2018 Spring Interns: Life on the Binne

Sep 28, 2018

  Back in January, when the trees were bare and everything was covered in snow, our new Studio, Nonprofit Management, and Ceramic interns arrived at WSW. Nine-months later, winter, spring, and summer have passed, and as the leaves are starting to turn and the air is getting crisp, three of these interns are moving off… View Article

Layered Experience: Carola Persson in The Studio

Sep 20, 2018

The layers in Carola Persson’s prints build up like memories, marks emerg strong and clear while others fade into the background or lurk off to the side. With allusive line work, her scenes are charged with emotion and tell stories of a vast internal landscape.Interested in the dynamic of the individual and the group, Persson… View Article

Converging Practices: Sarah Blackwell in the Studio

Apr 28, 2015

Amidst a landscape slowly emerging from the weight of winter, Chili Bowl Workspace resident Sarah Blackwell finds every excuse to work outside. Hands glowing with porcelain dust, she sands several hundred mysterious, hand-sized ceramic coils. “Clay has such a life of its own. It’s constantly shifting and warping. You want to force it to be… View Article

Alumnae Spotlight: Dani Leventhal

Feb 26, 2014

Dani Leventhal first came to WSW in 1997 as a studio intern and ended up sticking around to start WSW’s now-thriving ceramics program. Ten years later she returned as a resident to produce Skim Milk and Soft Wax, a book that includes a 44-minute video and explores the collision between the narratives of Dani’s Jewish identity… View Article